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Photo of Lucile Salter Packard with a cat in her lap and Dave Packard sitting next to her.
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Lucile Salter Packard
Dave Packard married Lucile “Lu” Salter in 1938, not long before the couple moved from Schenectady, New York, to Palo Alto so Dave and Bill Hewlett could start Hewlett-Packard together. Lu would be cr ...
From left to right: Bill Hewlett, Flora Hewlett, Lucile Packard and Dave Packard.
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Photo of the Hewletts and the Packards
A rare early photo of the Hewletts and the Packards all together at Addison Avenue. From left to right: Bill Hewlett, Flora Hewlett, Lucile Packard, Dave Packard.
Schematic for Porter-Hewlett Packard Temperature Control.
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Porter’s Part: HP’s Earliest Products
During the company’s first year of operations, Bill and Dave’s former classmate Noel “Ed” Porter worked for a local air conditioning company and farmed out work to the young Hewlett-Packard Company de ...
Schematic for the HP 200A audio oscillator.
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Schematic for Success: The HP200A
Bill Hewlett drew this schematic for Hewlett-Packard’s first product by hand. It is dated January 26, 1939.
The HP 200A audio oscillator prototype developed by Bill Hewlett at Stanford.
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The HP 200A: From Prototype to Product
Bill developed this audio oscillator while doing postgraduate research at Stanford in 1938. On the basis of this prototype, Bill and Dave developed their first product, the HP 200A audio oscillator. ( ...
Three lightbulbs like the ones that Bill Hewlett may have used as a variable resistor.
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The Lightbulb that Lit the Way to HP
On July 27, 1938, while working as a researcher at Stanford, Bill Hewlett had an idea that would revolutionize oscillator technology and lead directly to the founding of Hewlett-Packard. Engineers had ...